The Royal Society Corpus

This corpus contains journal articles published in [Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London](http://rstl.royalsocietypublishing.org/) between 1665 and 1869. It includes all publications of the journal written mainly in English and containing running text. The Philosophical Transactions was the first periodical of scientific writing in England. Founded in 1665 by Henry Oldenburg, the first secretary of the Royal Society, it initially contained excerpts of letters of his scientific correspondence, reviews and summaries of recently-published books, and accounts of observations and experiments.

The corpus is available for online querying through CQPweb and for download from the CLARIN-D repository of the University of Saarland.

Version history:
- [RSC 6.0 Open](https://hdl.handle.net/21.11119/0000-0004-8E37-F)
- [RSC 4.0](http://hdl.handle.net/21.11119/0000-0001-7E8B-6)
- [RSC 2.0](http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-246C-0000-0023-8D26-7)

本语料库收录了《伦敦皇家学会哲学学报》（Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London，官方网址：http://rstl.royalsocietypublishing.org/）1665年至1869年间发表的全部期刊文章，所有内容均以英语为主要创作语言且包含完整连贯正文。

《伦敦皇家学会哲学学报》是英国首份科学写作类期刊，由皇家学会首任秘书亨利·奥尔登堡（Henry Oldenburg）于1665年创立。该刊初创时期的刊载内容包括其科学通信书信摘录、新近出版图书的书评与摘要，以及各类观测与实验记录。

本语料库可通过CQPweb进行在线查询，也可从萨尔兰大学（University of Saarland）的CLARIN-D资源库下载获取。

版本沿革：
- [RSC 6.0 Open](https://hdl.handle.net/21.11119/0000-0004-8E37-F)
- [RSC 4.0](http://hdl.handle.net/21.11119/0000-0001-7E8B-6)
- [RSC 2.0](http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-246C-0000-0023-8D26-7)